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Dogheads were more than mythological creatures, according to some ancient sources. One of them even became a Saint, as per:

St. Christopher the Doghead

Who were the dogheads? What is cynocephaly all about?

Wikipedia (not a source that should be the only one a person ever uses), in discussing cynocephaly, has this piece of modern trivia: “In the USA there are tales of dog-headed creatures, including the Dogman of Michigan, and the wolf-like Beast of Bray Road of Wisconsin, which terrorized a neighbourhood in the early 1990s.”

Maybe Linda Godfrey is on to something? For more discussions of contemporary American cynocephaly, see The Beast of Bray Road and Hunting the American Werewolf.